2020 Farm wheat yields
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Topic: 2020 Farm wheat yields
Posted By: AC7060IL
Subject: 2020 Farm wheat yields
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 3:06pm
| Just curious - If your farm grew a 2020 wheat crop, what were yield levels? Thanks |
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 4:02pm
| Have seen from 85 to 112 b/a dependent of variety , Hard Red, Soft Red, White. |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 5:08pm
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Out here in gods country we had a better than expected crop, 40's to 70's, which would be a good crop out here. West of me in far western KS heard there was a bunch not worth a combine. ------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 6:40pm
Would love to give wheat another chance... 
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Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 8:10pm
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40 bu. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 8:13pm
| Not good boys. In Washington State the yields on the high desert plateau are the higher number I quoted, some of the sweetest wheat ground on God's Green Earth and most of the time dry as a popcorn fart out there. Know of one farm not too far away that broke 85b/a on winter Red Hard wheat this last season, everything just clicked. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2020 at 11:59pm
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Some friends in east central Colorado, west of Limon, got an average of 50 bushes, better then they thought it would yield. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 2:43am
| last we had wheat here, it was hard red winter, it varied from 35-60 bu. the big green farmers would never figger out how to adjust their combines for wheat here! they can't do it very good for corn. |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 6:58am
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Soft red wheat here was 109 bu. and would have been higher if we would have had timely rains and cooler nights. Highest I've heard was 130 bu. I've grown wheat every year for more than 40 years. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 7:46am
| A local friend had some hard, red winter wheat that made 75 bu/acre. He then no-tilled some soybeans into the wheat stubble. Got lucky and has had plenty of rain since then to get the beans out of the ground and growing good. If he keeps getting rain through August, I'll bet those beans make over 30 bu/acre. Pretty good return per acre for 2020. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 8:58am
Anyone from the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc...? |
Calvin Schmidt wrote:Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 9:13am
| Thank you to all the different US replies(DMiller, Kansas99,Clay,JohnColo,ShamelessDude,BrianF(IL)). When it comes to test weight, what key factor(s) do you feel is(are) most noteworthy - variety,fertilizer,weather, etc..? |
Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 9:30am
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My wheat made 50 bu and was double crop after beans. Had some that didnt get much growth before winter but the wet spring helped. Central ks ------------- Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 9:49am
| Hail took care of yields around here |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 9:58am
| I'm no agronomist, but in my opinion test weight is most impacted by weather. If you don't get the rain when needed or the right temps, you're not going to get the good yield. And yield is impacted by test weight of the kernel. FWIW. |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 10:05am
They must have taught the farmers and custom cutters down here with the green machines how to set them as well, because you can't drill wheat at a 100# a acre and get as good as stand as a green machine. ------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 10:13am
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 12:15pm
| Saying is that wheat likes dry feet. Best I had was 2 yrs in 80's when near drought.80 plus b/a....could stick a flat hand in the ground cracks past finger length up on your palm |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 1:06pm
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Timely rain, not necessarily lots of rain! Then with the appropriate amount of fertilizer, you can get good yield, weight, and protein. I say weather the most important, because with the best of everything else, if the weather sucks you're SOL. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 1:12pm
I agree with Steve and T-Bone. An old saying around here is, "Dust in the wheat and mud in the oats". A dry fall after soybeans are harvested and we plant some wheat. Not a lot any more. A little rain is needed for germination and some growth before the first frost. If the wheat doesn't freeze out over the winter, you need some rain for growth in the spring. After that, "timely" rains are a must.
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Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 1:55pm
| We didn’t do wheat this year but neighbor said his was 110 b/a, that is a little higher than normal but am sure some local guys did better than that. I am surprised of the low yield numbers across the Midwest as stated. We are on the central part of the Mason Dixon. Local report shows several areas did 100 plus. Must be a lot of green machines out there! |
Posted By: Kiwi
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 3:43pm
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Hi all we had a wheat yield here in New Zealand this year at 258.7 BU/ac . oh that's right it was a world record hope your harvest is going well ------------- Tractors Allis EB,two C,diesel G |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 5:09pm
Wheat likes dry feet makes sense as to the Washington Plateau W of Spokane over to Ellensburg. Took this in 2009, dry as I have ever seen running a drill, tires were rolling half sidewall in Dust.
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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 6:00pm
Is this web link the correct correspondence to it? If so, what irrigation technique is used - pivot,lateral,etc,? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.realagriculture.com/2020/07/new-zealand-farmer-sets-new-wheat-world-record-at-258-8-bu-ac/" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.realagriculture.com/2020/07/new-zealand-farmer-sets-new-wheat-world-record-at-258-8-bu-ac/ |
Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2020 at 9:17pm
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to grow wheat again, you need something to add value in NE; profit won't hardly meet taxes. Some guys bale all the straw. I use to plant covercrops and have green good pasture to rent out when everyone was outta pasture. I had to make the fence and check cattle daily. lots of labor but it paid good! ------------- AC from the start of my families farming career till the end! |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2020 at 6:11am
| Wheat here got drowned in October,frosted in May and drought in June. Top part of the heads on many plants never filled. Yields running from 40 to 80 bushel. At least there wasn't Vomitoxin. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2020 at 8:06am
Ahh...the fickle finger of wheat.....Winter kill, drought, too much rain, vomitoxin, rust, sprouting, the GDMFSOBBS falling number test. . . .Can't wait to try it again!!!  Wheat isn't quite done around here yet. It looked good from the roads, but I haven't talked to anyone who's done it yet. Our county history average for insurance purposes is I think 80-ish. I would not DREAM of doing wheat without insurance. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:59am
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This year ours made 87 bu. ---thats average for us on our farm. ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: knkrein1
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2020 at 12:36pm
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I didn't bother to get the AllCrop 72 out this year. My wheat crop was vary poor. So I let the wild life life enjoy the wheat. Should be a good turkey hunt this next season. Mine you I only had 4.5-5 acres planted - wasn't going to make any profit anyhow. ------------- Ken R. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2020 at 1:56pm
| Last time i grew wheat it made around 40bu not 60+ needed to "profit". Had contracted @ $3.11. Harvest price was $4.11....had 11bu over my contract...barely recovered inputs(seed and fert) and that was it for me. Ground lays flat and spring freeze out was problematic always. To add insult to injury there is the weed patch left to mow down later on. Some one else can grow it. |
Posted By: allisbred
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2020 at 6:29pm
| Funny that it still brings the same, hasn’t changed much over the years just more input to grow good quality. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2020 at 6:42pm
| More and more here the growing of wheat is a cover crop, bale it early, then as comes back on allow to dry down then bale in entirety as Straw Bales, get almost as much for good straw as can a wheat harvest. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 8:12am
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 9:42am
| First Baling Green as Grass for Silage in Rounds, second comes after that first growth begins to run again but the heads do not seem to come out, not much as a Grain crop but landscapers almost enter bid wars for Straw Square Bales. Few to any around here bale straw much anymore so that has become a Cash Cow!! Some odd Hybrid wheat I have seen being harvested stalks are like less than a foot or two long, next to no straw to bale to begin with. Those fields get a burn down for N2. |